Creative Review articles from March 2005

Creative Review archives from March 2005

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 14, 2005... Happy birthday to us. The first issue of Creative Review was published 25 years ago. Over that time, there has been a great deal of change in the creative industries but much has also stayed the same. For this issue, we've delved into our...

Letter: Transport didn't match up.(Letter to the Editor)
March 14, 2005... Re Ron Costley's letter [February] suggesting similarities between Clearview and the British Transport typeface: We respect the writer's comment and probably no single typeface was closer to our goals than the work of Kinneir and Calvert....

Letter: Type designers do care.(Letter to the Editor)
March 14, 2005... I take issue with Derek York's comments about type designers [We need right type, Letters, February]. Designers of quality text fonts are very much aware of the need for good legibility. And dyslexic people are helped by observing good...

Letter: Advertising v design.(Letter to the Editor)
March 14, 2005... Re Where would advertising be without design [February]: All (printed) advertising is graphic design, but not all graphic design is advertising. Brian Dicks, Graphic design coordinator, Solihull College, West Midlands Copyright:...

Introducing our new face.(Editorial)
March 14, 2005... We hope you like the redesigned Creative Review. It's the result of six months of discussions, research and development work. We really did start with a blank slate by considering first whether to change the format of the magazine. If...

Fink opens artschool online.(Graham Fink)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Leading director Graham Fink has taken his artschool project online. Fink, a former Saatchi & Saatchi creative and D&AD president, set up the Art School in 2002 as an alternative means for young creatives of all disciplines to learn from...

Shynola bring Beckland to life.
March 14, 2005... Fans of writer Douglas Adams and animators Shynola will be delighted to know that Richard Kenworthy, Jason Groves, Gideon Baws and Chris Harding are currently holed-up in their Hackney studio putting the finishing touches to the animated...

One To Watch: PES.(Adam Pesapane)(Interview)
March 14, 2005... PES doesn't like being called an animator. "It's very limiting," says the 30 year old self-professed storyteller, director and artist from New Jersey. Now based in New York's Harlem, PES (real name Adam Pesapane) tells stories and expresses...

I Was The: Mercedes Editor.(Paul Watts)(Interview)
March 14, 2005... Editor Paul Watts spent five weeks cutting Peace at Last, a new Mercedes spot directed by Frank Budgen. Gavin Lucas visited him at his edit suite to find out what took him so long CDD's latest Mercedes spot, Peace At Last, depicts an office...

5X5=25: Paula Scher, Pentagram NY.(New York)
March 14, 2005... What were the most significant pieces of work of the past quarter century in visual communications? The technical advances that altered everything? The people who changed an industry? We asked a leading international practitioner to make five...

Group Photographs.(Photodebut--nonprofit organization)(Interview)
March 14, 2005... Mark Sinclair meets the founders of London-based collective, Photodebut "A while ago, we had a chart where we tried to work out who was the average Photodebut photographer," says Jan von Holleben, co-founder of the non-profit...

How does Photodebut work?(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Photodebut is a non-profit organisation that acts as a network for its members. The experience that each member can bring to the group is as important as their photographic skills. Unlike the traditional work ethic of the lone photographer,...

New York, New Work.(Infiltrate: The Front Lines of the NYC Design Scene)(Book Review)
March 14, 2005... In filtrate, a showcase of New York's emergent graphic designers, suggests a defiantly multicultural city. Adrian Shaughnessy investigates The most striking thing about Alexander Gelman's book Infiltrate is how "British" much of the work...

Twenty-fifth cover story.
March 14, 2005... This month's lenticular front cover marries new technology with old to mark our quarter century We wanted something with real stand-out for our twenty-fifth birthday cover. We had looked at lenticulars some years before but they were...